PREFACE. 
In completing the firet volume of the Society’s Journal, the Publi- 
cation Committee venture to regard with some satisfaction the new 
arrangement under which it has been issued, not so much, however, 
in respect to what has been actually accomplished, as on account 
of the organization they have been able to establish for the future, 
and which has been partially brought into operation in the later 
numbers of the Journal. 
The Journal will be published bi-monthly, in February, April, 
June, August, October, and December ; and whilst it will vary in 
size according to convenience, an endeavour will be made to ensure 
that it shall not contain less than sixty-four pages and two plates, 
with woodcuts as required. 
It will comprise : 
(1) The Transactions of the Society, being the papers read 
(or taken as read) at the Ordinary Meetings, and the President’s 
Address at the Annual Meeting. 
(2) The Proceedings of the Society, being a report of the 
business transacted at the Ordinary and Annual Meetings, including 
any discussions on the subjects brought before the Meetings. 
(3) Notes and Memoranda, being extracts from the articles 
in English and Foreign Journals, Transactions, &c., which relate 
to the Microscope or the subjects of Microscopical Eesearch, together 
with notes of any other current matters of interest to Microscopists. 
(4) Bibliography, being a list of the new Books and of the 
contents of English and Foreign serials, &c. (so far as they relate 
to the Microscope or the subjects of Microscopical Eesearch), most 
of which are to be seen in the Society’s Library. 
Special importance is attached to the “ Notes and Memoranda,” 
which are intended to present a summary of what is doing 
throughout the world in all branches of Microscopical Eesearch. 
Whilst extracts’ from English publications will not be excluded, 
preference will be given to those of foreign countries, as being less 
easily accessible. Amongst these will be included the Transactions 
and Proceedings of the Academies of the United States, France, 
Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Eussia, together with the 
Microscopical, Botanical, and Zoological journals of those countries. 
The pages devoted to “ Bibliography ” will also, it is hoped, 
prove useful, as giving in a condensed form information that cannot 
be so readily obtained otherwise. 
Lastly, it will not be out of place to remind the Fellows that the 
editing of the Journal has rested with those who, being mucli 
occupied in other pursuits, have not been able to give it undivided 
attention. 
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